THE CRISIS: A Holiday Test for the President

As Christmas approaches and the most
hectic and trying year in his memory draws to a close, President Nixon
will face a particularly severe test. Congress will recess late this
week, sending members home for a month of fence mending and careful
probing of sentiment about the President among those whom Senate
Republican Leader Hugh Scott calls "the people in the drugstores." What
the legislators hear may well determine Nixon's future, for most would
agree with Republican National Chairman George Bush that "the momentum
for resignation or impeachment will [have to] come...